Innova Capital Partners, LLC (“Innova”) and Ciel & Terre (“C&T”), the world leading company in the development of floating PV projects, have signed an agreement to jointly develop floating solar power plants throughout the Republic of Colombia. Innova Solar Colombia (“ISC”), a subsidiary company of Innova, will be the local developer and investor while C&T will provide their innovative PV floating technology and know-how to develop these solutions. ISC is a member of the Innova Latin American Development Program. Read more

Ciel & Terre Brasil, a subsidiary of French floating PV specialist Ciel & Terre, has completed Brazil’s first floating solar project, standing at 304kW capacity on a rainwater accumulation pond at Fazenda Figueiredo, Cristalina, in the state of Goias. Read more

Environmental restrictions for large-scale projects such as hydropower plants, oil and coal thermal power plants, associated with the need to produce energy near the consumption point, have an impact on the reduction of energy costs and arouse Brazilians’ interest in other types of energy, in particular solar power generation. Read more

Fast Company: This dam has been a disaster – Can turning it into a solar plant save it? (27-July 2017)

Brazil’s Balbina hydroelectric plant has destroyed swaths of rainforest and people’s homes–and isn’t even producing much clean energy. Can a new solar installation on its like be a model for improving dam projects around the world? Read more

Green Tumble: What is the future of Solar energy? (19-July 2017)

Floating solar farms have also attracted a lot of attention particularly as some firms such as Ciel & Terre International have been working on making this a reality by setting up a large scale, floating, solar solution since 2011. One such farm is being already installed as a trial off the coast of the UK; similar projects might be attempted in India, France, and Japan. Read more

The French floating PV specialist Ciel et Terre International announced it has started construction on a 70 MW floating solar plant in China’s Anhui province for China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), a top state-owned energy conglomerate and a renewable energy project developer in China. Read more | Press Release

A Dutch consortium of government agencies, R&D facilities and solar companies have launched two of four pilot floating solar projects on the Slufter on the Maasvlakte, a water region used for contaminated harbour dredging sludge. Read more

Irrigoias: Cristalina to have first floating photovoltaic plant within a rural property in Brazil (07-June 2017)

This is the first project in Brazil to be implemented in a rural property and connected directly to the power grid. “When I decided to deploy the photovoltaic plant on my farm, I made a point of choosing what was best in the market so that the results are also the best,” says José Carlos Tormim, executive director of MTEC Energia (EPC contractor). Read more

Ciel et Terre® won the coveted prize in the Photovoltaics cataegory at Intersolar Europe 2017 ! The panel of judges writes: “This technology makes an important contribution to the global energy transition for this niche market.” Read more

Solar Power World: Trial floating solar installation in Orlando is first of hopefully many for Florida utility (02-May 2017)

“This is the first stepping stone in our development of floating PV projects among public entities in the United States. D3Energy is an excellent local partner that has continued to be a great advocate for floating PV and continues to spread the word about our alternative to traditional ground-mount and rooftop systems.” said Eva Pauly-Bowles, international sales director of Ciel & Terre® International Read more

Japan Today: Japan sees potential in solar (18-April 2017)

Think electricity and water don’t mix? Think again. Within the next year, a floating solar farm on Yamakura Dam in Chiba Prefecture will start providing enough power for nearly 5,000 households. It aims to be the largest installation of its kind in Japan, and the second-largest in the world. Read more

The development has a capacity of 6.3MW, which is enough to power 1,700 homes at peak operating capacity. This equate to saving 2,950 tonnes of carbon emissions every year or taking 469 cars off the road. The energy however will be used by Thame’s Water waste treatment plant and is expected to provide approximately 20% of the plant’s energy requirements. Read more

French floating PV specialists Ciel & Terr®e have installed a 220 kW PV installation at a hydroelectric dam on Portugal’s Rabagão River. Though a comparatively small installation, this represents the first time the two technologies have been used in tandem at utility scale. Read more

Ciel & Terre and D3 Energy completed their first full-fledged U.S. project in partnership with the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC). The inauguration ceremony announces the largest floating solar photovoltaic system in Florida to date. Compared to rooftop and ground mounted solar systems, Florida is a prime location within the US to install Ciel & Terre’s patented large-scale floating PV technology known as Hydrelio. Read more

Europe’s largest floating solar panel project is being installed on Thames Water’s QEII reservoir in Greater London. Read more

The telegraph: United Utilities installs Europe’s largest floating solar power project on reservoir (27-October 2015)

Water giant United Utilities is to install Europe’s biggest floating solar power system on a reservoir near Manchester, as it seeks to capitalise on the novel technology to cut its energy costs. Read more

Bloomberg brief: Floating Solar Makes its First Splash in the Market (O7-June 2015)

« The last 6-8 months have seen a tremendous surge of interest (in floating solar), » remarks the director of Solaris Synergy. Read more

Intersolar North America: Ciel & Terre® exhibiting in San Francisco in July 2015. (26-June 2015)

Ciel & Terre® International exhibiting from the 14th to the 16th of July 2015 under CALSEIA pavilion located at booth number 8811,8812. Read more